Social Commentaries
Pondere Non Numero
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Friends should be weigh'd, not told; who boasts to have won
A multitude of friends, he ne'er had one.
'Freunde muss man sich erwählen
Nur nach Wägen, nicht nach Zählen.'
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Codex Note
Adapted by Coleridge from Logau's Sinngedicht
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